Author: SEIJI, TSUTSUMI
Title: Japan's Consumer Society a Critical Introduction
Description: Tokyo: ARC Publishing Inc, 1999. Hardcover. ISBN: 4901213016. Cover is white ground with inset pinkish rectangle, on which there are burgundy pictographs/lettering. Spine has lettering in burgundy in English. Originally published in Japanese in 1996, in English, translated by Frederick M. Uleman, in 1999. Grey endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; book appears as if unused. "Many books have been written on Japan's economic miracle...but few on its astounding consumerism and the social implications of this consumer society...Consumption as labor replenishment has given way to consumption as identity formation. How does this fit in with Japanese tradition? ..Businessman, poet and interdisciplinary scholar, Tsutsumi Seiji has written a compelling work on Japan's consumer society yesterday, today and tomorrow". Extremely scarce title. ; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2; 203 pages; Cover has slight bumping. DJ has light shelfwear, in a mylar cover.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 4901213016 Japan: America; American History; Japanese History Japan; Asia; Asian History; Cultural History; Social History; Sociology; Consumers; Economic History; Cultural History History Orient/Asia Geography World History Business/Economics Government/


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